Managing People You Don’t Like (Let’s Face it. We Can’t Like Everyone We Work With) | Dream a Career

In a perfect world, everyone on your team is a star player with a fantastic attitude and a go-above-and-beyond willingness to get the job done. Unfortunately, I and many other young managers have found ourselves losing sleep (only because we want our people to succeed! Help ME help YOU!!) over a few “bad apples” we need to motivate (the person we have that dreaded “Help ME help YOU” conversation with). Remember how when we were captains, during PE time, and there stood that ONE kid whom nobody wanted on the team? (Of course, it wasn’t me. Um…yeah, of course, like NEVER.) Maybe you were that one kid, or perhaps you were the popular captain faced with the decision of having to, reluctantly, choose this person. And everyone is whispering in your ear, “No. Not him. No, no, no!! We’ll lose.” Well, unfortunately, I have learned that this situation wasn’t exclusive to my middle school PE time. For better or worse, it followed me well into management and beyond. So how do we work with employees whom we (or anyone else on the team) just can’t seem to get along with? How do we avoid having the awkward “hey listen, sorry, but we need let you go” conversation from ever taking place? And is there anything we can do to help these individuals succeed?

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